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RECORD NUMBER: 382 OF 569| Main Title | Pathological protein : mad cow, chronic wasting, and other deadly prion diseases / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Yam, Philip. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Copernicus, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2003 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 51022709 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0387955089 (alk. paper) | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Prion diseases--Popular works ; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome ; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform ; Prion Diseases ; Wasting Disease, Chronic | |||||||||||
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| Collation | xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death in Devizes -- One in a million -- Cannibals' laughing death -- Connecting the holes -- Birth of the prion -- Family curses -- On the prion proving grounds -- Consuming fears -- Mad cow's human toll -- Keeping the madness out -- Scourge of the cervids -- Misadventures in medicine -- Searching for cures -- Laying odds. |